LH: "The server was RAID. Its disk was RAID, so that's one of the things we're looking at. But it was a software RAID, so if it's a filesystem problem then... that's not gonna do any good because the the errors were RAIDed as well."
Since the file system and database were corrupted, it wouldn't matter if it was hardware RAID or software RAID. That's not the problem at all,
Why isn't this easy for people to understand? Faith in hardware replication as backup seems incredibly prevalent, even here on/. where you'd think everyone would get it.
Most of me wishes TPB will wipe the floor with the vile scum that are the plaintiffs. But really, I know that if TPB win, things will just get worse as the plaintiffs will seek to defend their revolting monopolies in ever more extreme ways elsewhere. They'll be like Agent Smith: just bringing in more and more lawyers.
If TPB lose, then things will get even worse as file sharing is forced further into the darknet and whole cultures start to grow up effectively rejecting completely any moral regard for copyright in any form. The RIAA and the others have not a clue about how far things can go here, nor how damaging they will become in trying to prop up their failing business models.
And just in case anyone is tempted to say that I'm going over the top about being able to share my Pixies albums with strangers, let me assure them that they've missed the point by a mile.
evidence about autism is not as iron clad but a court cant rule on what causes autism, that's for scientist to worry about.
Yes, but it remains a fact that children have died (3 in the UK I think) as a result of their parents delaying their immunisation against measles. That is why a court must rule so as to stop the killings by ignorant parents.
I blame the concept of "fair journalism" in which each side of the story gets an equal amount of coverage
No - journalists will simply seek out controversial stories to sell the news. It has nothing to do with being fair and they have no interest in that concept anyway. "STOP PRESS!! LOOKING AT PICTURES OF OBAMA MAY SHORTEN YOUR LIFE!!"... that sort of thing.
I tend to lean to the left side of the political spectrum, but two threads of liberal thought piss me off more than just about anything: anti nuke environmentalists and autism/vaccine linkers.
What on earth makes you think this has anything at all to do with "liberal thought"? Surely it's a completely apolitical issue??
You must be living in a serious bubble if you think that only liberals think you shouldn't "mess with nature." In fact, I nominate your post as the most dumbfounding I've seen on/. this week! And you've got 5 points!!
Raises an interesting moral question though, doesn't it? Should a mother who chooses to believe something demonstrably wrong be allowed to deny their child the protection of the MMR vaccine? Three children have died in the UK as a result of not being vaccinated against these diseases.
I suppose because the child is under age the adult has legal rights over them, but most right-thinking people would be outraged if a child was left to die because (say) their mother didn't believe in a blood transfusion, or thought saline drips caused cancer. Why not refusal of MMR? Of course, separate injections are fine instead, but you have to pay for them (in the UK) and there's often a difficulty in finding serum of sufficient quality.
Autism occurs and makes itself known about the same time as the vaccination occurs, which may explain why some people makes that connection.
I think in fact it's sillier than that. The "theory" that the MMR vaccine caused autism was based on a simple idea that made sense to people who don't know jack about medicine or biology: that if you hit a baby's immune system with three separate vaccines at once, it will buckle under pressure and bad things will happen. Never mind that the human body is routinely being bombarded by about 10,000 different pathogens a day - somehow being given dead measles, mumps and rubella cells would be diabolically special. Oh, and to subscribe to this idea you also had to make sure you ignored the fact that MMR had been used for the past 50 years in the US and most of Europe without any perceived problems.
The whole MMR thing was an excellent example of how some people profit from giving people a simple idea that they can understand, regardless of whether there's any truth in it at all. The doctor who came up with the "evidence" for this has since been shown to have altered research data as well - so he wins bonus points for deception. I wish I could do that. Hey! Everyone! I've found out that sitting on chairs makes your arse go flat! Stand up! Stand upp!
Don't worry - the feds will put out a nice cloud of decoy signals. Anyway, it's not as if you can't find out where the pres is generally going to be at any one time: the Whitehouse press office put out that info every day!
Today's article by James Lovelock in The Sunday Times basically says don't sweat it (geddit?!) - because no matter what we do now, it's too late to avert the onset of a massive "heat age."
It's unclear whether he thinks the heat age will completely wipe out mankind by about 2050, but he's certain that our population will be decimated. He makes some interesting comparisons with wartime Britain and what will have to happen along the way.
But who cares? I mean really - it's not as if the human race has actually achieved anything much of any real note during its brief tenure of this planet. So I for one will continue to cook on gas, have a blast and book flights to Barbados as often as I can.
> Nobody (that's nobody) chooses new passwords for every system they use.
False.
Pick a password like "Ez24Get" and see if you can use it unaltered for your bank, or at work for more than a month, or on any system that demands 8 characters or more.
I think things will have to get worse before they get better. Let them deploy the most draconian measures they can - if they want to learn the hard way, then so be it.
This is the Prohibition of our era, and it's going to be just as disastrous. But freedom always wins in the end.
I predict that this is the start of the end of the net at we know it, and the beginning of the new systems that will replace it - beyond the reach of the IP maximalists, the bloodsucking commercial interests and the media monopolies. We have the wireless mesh routers, the power-over-wifi, the huge storage capacities, commodity hardware and anonymous protocols - and much, much more.
What lessons can we learn from a password list taken from a mailing list? Most if not all people would instinctively choose a weak password for something like that, and those that didn't wouldn't use their "normal" strong one for fear of something like this incident happening. After all, it's only worth choosing a strong password if there's something worth protecting with it. Nobody (that's nobody) chooses new passwords for every system they use. So what's left - "password" and "12345". Not a big surprise.
US outfit Fortify Software has come up with research to prove it.
I'm willing to bed that the company in question has promised a large political donation, and this article has been seeded to make sure it all looks like a rational decision when the Torys wangle them a huge IT contract in return.
Every SINGLE friggn' political issue I ever get involved with, before long I realise: it's big business throwing money at corrupt politicians - and the politicians gladly take it. That IS politics now - the giving and taking of money and the protection of the interests of big businesses.
All the GUI tearing in Ubuntu gave me a headache within minutes of using 8.10
Oh please. I'm using a GeForce 7300GT with 8.10 using the standard Nvidia drivers that Ubuntu used on install. Turn off Desktop Effects and you're fine.
Really, do you actually think that if 8.10 gave Nvidia users headaches, anyone would still be using Ubuntu?
I'm not in huge disagreement with what you say about X11, but making ridiculous exaggerations to make your point it's just silly.
It's not difficult. If you have a few hundred million going idle and want to see some kids educated: pay them. Tie pay rises to results, make sure that the highest level of their education makes them financially independent from their parents. Bingo: actual, real, live educated kids like you've always wanted - blasting out of the ghetto like bats out of hell on shining motorbikes of pure ability.
Oh, and let the schools do what they do best - let THEM do the teaching. Stay off their backs, don't mess with the coal face.
I used to be a teacher. Believe me - hit 'em in the wallet and they'll go for it.
It's always mystified me as to why a business with less then about 100 employees would use Exchange Server. Yet it seems the vast majority do, even though they could just use IMAP with Outlook.
Is it the shared calendar/resource booking thing? In which case why do they elect to spend serious money (probably close to the annual wage of one of their junior employees) when a web-based shared calendar would be free? Heck, a couple of days evaluating the hoards of good alternatives on freshmeat.net wouldn't kill them would it?
I dunno. Weird. Medium to large corporations (200 seats+) I can sort of understand, but even then...
You're obviously so far up your own ass that you can't even consider that perhaps Google might not want to go out of business.
That is EXACTLY what I'm saying. They don't want to go out of business, but the DMCA - taken to it logical conclusion, will do just that for them because culture is more powerful than either Google or the DMCA.
Yeah keep sticking it to the man.. If Google can't keep hosting those Britney Spears music videos then they should go bankrupt over it..
Which is what I just said too.
Also quoting Lawrence Lessig on unrelated topics doesn't make you insighful, all you're doing is trying to bait me into discussing a different topic so you can "win" the debate.
How was the topic unrelated? They seem perfectly compatible to me. What is the point you are making?
The "demise" of spam in the inboxen of the masses has nothing whatsoever to do with the (in)actions His Most High Irrelevancy Sir Billington of Gates, and everything to do with the actual, hard, fucking work of people like the SpamAssassin crew, Spam Cannibal and (gosh) the The Spamhaus Project. May they fuck forever.
It's evil to comply by the DMCA? It's evil to follow the law? Get a clue.
You don't seem to grasp the seriousness of what's going on. The DMCA needs to be opposed, broken and made ineffective in order to defend something far more important than the right to make a buck. If they close YouTube down, so be it. YouTube, Slashdot, or any other site on its own is NOT more important than culture itself.
To quote Lawrence Lessig:
"Within every culture, there is a public domain - a lawyer-free zone, unregulated by the rules of copyright. Throughout history, this part of culture has been vital to the spread and development of creative work. It is the part that gets cultivated without the permission of anyone else.
There is no doubt that piracy is an important problem - it's just not the only problem. Our leaders have lost this sense of balance. They have been seduced by a vision of culture that measures beauty in ticket sales. They are apparently untroubled by a world where cultivating the past requires the permission of the past. They can't imagine that freedom could produce anything worthwhile at all.
The danger remains invisible to most, hidden by the zeal of a war on piracy. And that is how the public domain may die a quiet death, extinguished by self-righteous extremism, long before many even recognize it is gone."
My father works part-time for the Foreign Office (FCO) here in the UK. Last week, he sent me this email:
"After ordering hundred of computers loaded with Vista, the FCO has done a deal with Microsoft whereby we can buy the following. Excel 2007; Word 2007; Language Settings; Office Accountant; Powerpoint 2007. The price for this package is £17.00, as opposed to a r.r.p. of £172. So a big saving. It seems attractive on the surface: should I go for it? Or won't it add much ? I can only order via my office computer."
I was conflicted: tell him to go for it, or point out that this is Microsoft's way of screwing over the government of the UK and sucking needless taxpayers' cash into the bank accounts of the Microsoft monopoly?
I told him to go for it - but at least I felt guilty about it...
Good for you. You obviously are able to manage large numbers of logins safely and efficiently. OpenID is not for you.
My mother, on the other hand, has a list of ALL her site login details (currently about 15 and rising) written out and stuck to the side of her PC.
Sure - she must not be allowed to use OpenID for sites like Zopa, Amazon or her bank, but gardening and cooking sites do not deserve to screw up her life with password management.
Slashdot Mirror
The artwork for the Virgin Killer album was said to clearly fall under new UK child pornography laws.
Citation please.
Really, friggin' +5 Insightful for a bald - and in this case completely incorrect - "fact" without anything to back it up. Gotta love the mods...
Of course he should have had reliable backups; now he is the poster child for backups.
Well, today, yes, but in the modern world, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes
Since the file system and database were corrupted, it wouldn't matter if it was hardware RAID or software RAID. That's not the problem at all,
Why isn't this easy for people to understand? Faith in hardware replication as backup seems incredibly prevalent, even here on /. where you'd think everyone would get it.
Very strange.
My Mac servers run snapshots to external drives every hour. When something goes badly, it's back up in a few minutes.
Unless things went tits up more than an hour ago, in which case your "backup" can restore nothing but corrupt data.
Corrupt backups are in my experience probably a more common cause of disaster than not backing up at all.
Most of me wishes TPB will wipe the floor with the vile scum that are the plaintiffs. But really, I know that if TPB win, things will just get worse as the plaintiffs will seek to defend their revolting monopolies in ever more extreme ways elsewhere. They'll be like Agent Smith: just bringing in more and more lawyers.
If TPB lose, then things will get even worse as file sharing is forced further into the darknet and whole cultures start to grow up effectively rejecting completely any moral regard for copyright in any form. The RIAA and the others have not a clue about how far things can go here, nor how damaging they will become in trying to prop up their failing business models.
And just in case anyone is tempted to say that I'm going over the top about being able to share my Pixies albums with strangers, let me assure them that they've missed the point by a mile.
evidence about autism is not as iron clad but a court cant rule on what causes autism, that's for scientist to worry about.
Yes, but it remains a fact that children have died (3 in the UK I think) as a result of their parents delaying their immunisation against measles. That is why a court must rule so as to stop the killings by ignorant parents.
I blame the concept of "fair journalism" in which each side of the story gets an equal amount of coverage
No - journalists will simply seek out controversial stories to sell the news. It has nothing to do with being fair and they have no interest in that concept anyway. "STOP PRESS!! LOOKING AT PICTURES OF OBAMA MAY SHORTEN YOUR LIFE!!" ... that sort of thing.
I tend to lean to the left side of the political spectrum, but two threads of liberal thought piss me off more than just about anything: anti nuke environmentalists and autism/vaccine linkers.
What on earth makes you think this has anything at all to do with "liberal thought"? Surely it's a completely apolitical issue??
You must be living in a serious bubble if you think that only liberals think you shouldn't "mess with nature." In fact, I nominate your post as the most dumbfounding I've seen on /. this week! And you've got 5 points!!
Raises an interesting moral question though, doesn't it? Should a mother who chooses to believe something demonstrably wrong be allowed to deny their child the protection of the MMR vaccine? Three children have died in the UK as a result of not being vaccinated against these diseases.
I suppose because the child is under age the adult has legal rights over them, but most right-thinking people would be outraged if a child was left to die because (say) their mother didn't believe in a blood transfusion, or thought saline drips caused cancer. Why not refusal of MMR? Of course, separate injections are fine instead, but you have to pay for them (in the UK) and there's often a difficulty in finding serum of sufficient quality.
Autism occurs and makes itself known about the same time as the vaccination occurs, which may explain why some people makes that connection.
I think in fact it's sillier than that. The "theory" that the MMR vaccine caused autism was based on a simple idea that made sense to people who don't know jack about medicine or biology: that if you hit a baby's immune system with three separate vaccines at once, it will buckle under pressure and bad things will happen. Never mind that the human body is routinely being bombarded by about 10,000 different pathogens a day - somehow being given dead measles, mumps and rubella cells would be diabolically special. Oh, and to subscribe to this idea you also had to make sure you ignored the fact that MMR had been used for the past 50 years in the US and most of Europe without any perceived problems.
The whole MMR thing was an excellent example of how some people profit from giving people a simple idea that they can understand, regardless of whether there's any truth in it at all. The doctor who came up with the "evidence" for this has since been shown to have altered research data as well - so he wins bonus points for deception. I wish I could do that. Hey! Everyone! I've found out that sitting on chairs makes your arse go flat! Stand up! Stand upp!
Don't worry - the feds will put out a nice cloud of decoy signals. Anyway, it's not as if you can't find out where the pres is generally going to be at any one time: the Whitehouse press office put out that info every day!
Today's article by James Lovelock in The Sunday Times basically says don't sweat it (geddit?!) - because no matter what we do now, it's too late to avert the onset of a massive "heat age."
It's unclear whether he thinks the heat age will completely wipe out mankind by about 2050, but he's certain that our population will be decimated. He makes some interesting comparisons with wartime Britain and what will have to happen along the way.
But who cares? I mean really - it's not as if the human race has actually achieved anything much of any real note during its brief tenure of this planet. So I for one will continue to cook on gas, have a blast and book flights to Barbados as often as I can.
> Nobody (that's nobody) chooses new passwords for every system they use.
False.
Pick a password like "Ez24Get" and see if you can use it unaltered for your bank, or at work for more than a month, or on any system that demands 8 characters or more.
You can't, you won't, and I'm right you're wrong.
I think things will have to get worse before they get better. Let them deploy the most draconian measures they can - if they want to learn the hard way, then so be it.
This is the Prohibition of our era, and it's going to be just as disastrous. But freedom always wins in the end.
I predict that this is the start of the end of the net at we know it, and the beginning of the new systems that will replace it - beyond the reach of the IP maximalists, the bloodsucking commercial interests and the media monopolies. We have the wireless mesh routers, the power-over-wifi, the huge storage capacities, commodity hardware and anonymous protocols - and much, much more.
Oop - just seen a fairy in the fireplace!
What lessons can we learn from a password list taken from a mailing list? Most if not all people would instinctively choose a weak password for something like that, and those that didn't wouldn't use their "normal" strong one for fear of something like this incident happening. After all, it's only worth choosing a strong password if there's something worth protecting with it. Nobody (that's nobody) chooses new passwords for every system they use. So what's left - "password" and "12345". Not a big surprise.
From FTA:
US outfit Fortify Software has come up with research to prove it.
I'm willing to bed that the company in question has promised a large political donation, and this article has been seeded to make sure it all looks like a rational decision when the Torys wangle them a huge IT contract in return.
Every SINGLE friggn' political issue I ever get involved with, before long I realise: it's big business throwing money at corrupt politicians - and the politicians gladly take it. That IS politics now - the giving and taking of money and the protection of the interests of big businesses.
All the GUI tearing in Ubuntu gave me a headache within minutes of using 8.10
Oh please. I'm using a GeForce 7300GT with 8.10 using the standard Nvidia drivers that Ubuntu used on install. Turn off Desktop Effects and you're fine.
Really, do you actually think that if 8.10 gave Nvidia users headaches, anyone would still be using Ubuntu?
I'm not in huge disagreement with what you say about X11, but making ridiculous exaggerations to make your point it's just silly.
It's not difficult. If you have a few hundred million going idle and want to see some kids educated: pay them. Tie pay rises to results, make sure that the highest level of their education makes them financially independent from their parents. Bingo: actual, real, live educated kids like you've always wanted - blasting out of the ghetto like bats out of hell on shining motorbikes of pure ability.
Oh, and let the schools do what they do best - let THEM do the teaching. Stay off their backs, don't mess with the coal face.
I used to be a teacher. Believe me - hit 'em in the wallet and they'll go for it.
It's always mystified me as to why a business with less then about 100 employees would use Exchange Server. Yet it seems the vast majority do, even though they could just use IMAP with Outlook.
Is it the shared calendar/resource booking thing? In which case why do they elect to spend serious money (probably close to the annual wage of one of their junior employees) when a web-based shared calendar would be free? Heck, a couple of days evaluating the hoards of good alternatives on freshmeat.net wouldn't kill them would it?
I dunno. Weird. Medium to large corporations (200 seats+) I can sort of understand, but even then...
You're obviously so far up your own ass that you can't even consider that perhaps Google might not want to go out of business.
That is EXACTLY what I'm saying. They don't want to go out of business, but the DMCA - taken to it logical conclusion, will do just that for them because culture is more powerful than either Google or the DMCA.
Yeah keep sticking it to the man.. If Google can't keep hosting those Britney Spears music videos then they should go bankrupt over it..
Which is what I just said too.
Also quoting Lawrence Lessig on unrelated topics doesn't make you insighful, all you're doing is trying to bait me into discussing a different topic so you can "win" the debate.
How was the topic unrelated? They seem perfectly compatible to me. What is the point you are making?
The "demise" of spam in the inboxen of the masses has nothing whatsoever to do with the (in)actions His Most High Irrelevancy Sir Billington of Gates, and everything to do with the actual, hard, fucking work of people like the SpamAssassin crew, Spam Cannibal and (gosh) the The Spamhaus Project. May they fuck forever.
There. I said it. It is done.
It's evil to comply by the DMCA? It's evil to follow the law? Get a clue.
You don't seem to grasp the seriousness of what's going on. The DMCA needs to be opposed, broken and made ineffective in order to defend something far more important than the right to make a buck. If they close YouTube down, so be it. YouTube, Slashdot, or any other site on its own is NOT more important than culture itself.
To quote Lawrence Lessig:
"Within every culture, there is a public domain - a lawyer-free zone, unregulated by the rules of copyright. Throughout history, this part of culture has been vital to the spread and development of creative work. It is the part that gets cultivated without the permission of anyone else.
There is no doubt that piracy is an important problem - it's just not the only problem. Our leaders have lost this sense of balance. They have been seduced by a vision of culture that measures beauty in ticket sales. They are apparently untroubled by a world where cultivating the past requires the permission of the past. They can't imagine that freedom could produce anything worthwhile at all.
The danger remains invisible to most, hidden by the zeal of a war on piracy. And that is how the public domain may die a quiet death, extinguished by self-righteous extremism, long before many even recognize it is gone."
It's not evil to delete people's videos off their own website because said person tried to bend the rules they agreed to when signing up.
No, but it's evil assist those who would seek to destroy our culture. This is the battleground: between greed and the preservation of our way of life.
I'm not kidding, and a shitload of people agree with me
My father works part-time for the Foreign Office (FCO) here in the UK. Last week, he sent me this email:
"After ordering hundred of computers loaded with Vista, the FCO has done a deal with Microsoft whereby we can buy the following. Excel 2007; Word 2007; Language Settings; Office Accountant; Powerpoint 2007. The price for this package is £17.00, as opposed to a r.r.p. of £172. So a big saving. It seems attractive on the surface: should I go for it? Or won't it add much ? I can only order via my office computer."
I was conflicted: tell him to go for it, or point out that this is Microsoft's way of screwing over the government of the UK and sucking needless taxpayers' cash into the bank accounts of the Microsoft monopoly?
I told him to go for it - but at least I felt guilty about it...
Good for you. You obviously are able to manage large numbers of logins safely and efficiently. OpenID is not for you.
My mother, on the other hand, has a list of ALL her site login details (currently about 15 and rising) written out and stuck to the side of her PC.
Sure - she must not be allowed to use OpenID for sites like Zopa, Amazon or her bank, but gardening and cooking sites do not deserve to screw up her life with password management.